Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .
In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.
Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self - earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.
Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.
Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.
The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.
Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself.
